Please do some more research before posting such articles as this might mislead so many people if they go by this article blindly, the recent pump was due to spark airdrop wherein users were accumulating Ripple, and just for your information Ripple can increase or decrease demand and supply anytime because they don't have fixed supply of tokens and moreover Ripple would never be accepted by true crypto-enthusiast since it's not fully decentralized and at the end, people will lose their money when the company decided to sell off the huge chuck of tokens or to dump more tokens into market.